PM me.I have built an extensive and well-received land nav curriculum using USNG maps. CAP, unless I am missing something, has not properly updated their lesson plans and resources since the mid-1990s.

Maybe a little off topic, but was curious if anyone knows of a good video (preferably) or PPT that could be shown at meetings that gives a good overall look at all the aircrew positions? New members walk in the door and it would be something great for them to see. Goals to set, if they see it in action (hence the video). Get them pumped up about starting the process and training toward an end.

CAP, unless I am missing something, has not properly updated their lesson plans and resources since the mid-1990s.

Youíre not. I have not seen any national level training around USNG although the US SAR supplement specifically says to use it for land search and rescue. Thereís a NESA slide deck that talks about UTM (close, but not quite) and thatís all I know of.

Iím in the same boat, I put together a training a few years ago that incorporated FEMA US&R and FGDC material with my experience with MGRS, but that doesnít help standardize CAP as a whole. Just helped the folks in my area talk with the US&R teams we work with.

The task "O-0208 LOCATE A POINT ON A MAP USING UNIVERSAL TRANSVERSE MERCATOR (UTM) COORDINATES" was required for UDF and GTL when the original "new curriculum" was published in 2000-2001. It was dropped for the 2004 revision.

USNG became the federal government civilian standard in 2001 but was basically ignored until the Katrina after-action reports highlighted navigation problems.

The task "O-0208 LOCATE A POINT ON A MAP USING UNIVERSAL TRANSVERSE MERCATOR (UTM) COORDINATES" was required for UDF and GTL when the original "new curriculum" was published in 2000-2001. It was dropped for the 2004 revision.

I missed that; I was already GTL qualified at the time and there wasn't a huge impetus of revalidating individual tasks back then, it was just "go do your renewal sortie".

USNG became the federal government civilian standard in 2001 but was basically ignored until the Katrina after-action reports highlighted navigation problems.

It's still basically ignored today in many areas. I would like to see O-0208 reborn as "locate a point on a map using USNG" and make it a required task for anyone who has to look at a map, and then implement the associated training to go with it.

For a good one-off or a recurring annual thing, talk to your local fire department or better yet if you're at an airport, your airport ARFF crew if there is one. See if they'll come out and have some talks on fire safety, equipment demos, rig demos, etc. Can count it as safety and ES, especially if you round up some out of service fire extinguishers as demo units to help train members how to use them when needed. Done this a few times over the years, always a great success.

For a good one-off or a recurring annual thing, talk to your local fire department or better yet if you're at an airport, your airport ARFF crew if there is one. See if they'll come out and have some talks on fire safety, equipment demos, rig demos, etc. Can count it as safety and ES, especially if you round up some out of service fire extinguishers as demo units to help train members how to use them when needed. Done this a few times over the years, always a great success.

We've done that. Seniors and Cadets always enjoy it. We also had the local Helicopter Evac pay us a visit and they taught us how to prepare and secure a landing zone and the correct hand signals to bring them in. That was a fun and educational meeting.

For a good one-off or a recurring annual thing, talk to your local fire department or better yet if you're at an airport, your airport ARFF crew if there is one. See if they'll come out and have some talks on fire safety, equipment demos, rig demos, etc. Can count it as safety and ES, especially if you round up some out of service fire extinguishers as demo units to help train members how to use them when needed. Done this a few times over the years, always a great success.

We've done that. Seniors and Cadets always enjoy it. We also had the local Helicopter Evac pay us a visit and they taught us how to prepare and secure a landing zone and the correct hand signals to bring them in. That was a fun and educational meeting.